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About

Welcome to The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast.
This is a podcast where two ex-Disney animator brothers (who happen to be twins!) talk about their careers, other famous animation folk’s careers, creating,
growing artistically, branching out…having dreams and making them come
true! Our goals for the podcast is not just to talk about current events in animation (although we do that), or discuss the
difference between art and commerce (we do that too) but mostly, we are here to
EDUCATE, INSPIRE AND ENTERTAIN (not necessarily in that order). We strive to make a podcast like one that we
wish we had when we were younger.

Why we do a podcast:
Tom and Tony love animation. In fact, we used to call each other every week, not to talk about our families, but to talk about what was going
on at Disney, Sony, Dreamworks, animation projects we wanted to make or things we were working on currently. It’s
not only our careers- it’s our passion! We’re
going on 30 years working in the animation industry with all kinds of ups and
downs and we love to talk about it. We have hundreds of professional friends
and celebrities that we love to talk to and about. We do it for people
just like you! We want to give back and
celebrate the industry and art form we love. Join us!

Who we are:

Tom Bancroft
After leaving the prestigious California Institute of the
Arts, I began my over 25 years in the animation industry, most of which was for
Walt Disney Feature animation where he was an animator for 11 years on films
like: “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” “Aladdin”, “Pocahontas”,“Mulan”,
“Tarzan” and “Brother Bear” for which he animated characters like Young Simba,
Jafar and Iago, Pocahontas, Rutt and Tuke and lead the design and animation of
“Mushu” the dragon. After Disney, he
worked with Big Idea Productions as a Supervising Director/ Co-creator for a
Veggietales DVD series

His popular character design
instruction books, “Creating Characters with Personality” and “Character
Mentor” have become the most recognized in the industry and are required textbooks
at many art schools around the world.

Tony Bancroft
After going to CalArts with Tom, Tony also worked at
Disney for over 12 years as an animator on Beauty
and the Beast (Cogsworth), Aladdin (Iago),
The Lion King (Pumbaa), The Emperor’s New Groove (Kronk) and as
co-director of Mulan. At Sony Animation, he was the animation
supervisor on Stuart Little 2.
Besides work at the big studios he learned what it was not to make money but
love what you do by owning and operating his own animation studio and now is an
independent animation director and producer creating his own animated features.
In his spare time, he makes babies with his wife (3 girls!) who will go on to
rule the world…or at least their father. In his 2nd and 3rd spare times, Tony writes books like Directing
for Animation, speaks at colleges and conventions and is (the better) half
of the best podcast in the world, The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast.

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our thoughts on art schools to attend, how to break into animation or just why
can’t Tom say “Mulan”?

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